okay, I tried to shrink my /home while online (managed to get everything to stop using it so I could umount it) it somehow messed up the partition table and I was able to recover that using testdisk on a recovery and then I managed to recover the partitions fully with fsck and a superblock backup

I remade a filesystemless 2mb primary partition at the start of the disk, set bios_grub on it, mounted all the things (including --bind /dev /proc /sys) and chrooted into it then did grub-install and update-grub

now there was a strange boot image in my /boot from OVH and updating grub put that at the start of the boot orders and that booted but it evidently was not my OS (all ports were closed, 445 was marked "filtered", strange) and when I got rid of that image and updated grub, it failed to boot

another question, is when using preseed, how can i disable the network entirely during install, but still have the network configured using the values in the preseed (we deploy from an isolated network, only attaching hosts to a network once deployment is complete, and this final network may or may not have internet access)

If you have a question, just ask! For example: "I have a problem with ___; I'm running Debian version ___. When I try to do ___ I get the following output ___. I expected it to do ___." Don't ask if you can ask, if anyone uses it, or pick one person to ask. We're all volunteers; make it easy for us to help you. If you don't get an answer try a few hours later or on debian-user@lists.debian.org. See <smart questions><errors>.

Hi, I trying to compile using "make" but in some point of the building I got an error: /usr/local/stow/OpenCPN-4.8.0/src/wxsvg/src/cairo/SVGCanvasTextCairo.cpp:22:30: fatal error: pango/pangocairo.h: No such file or directory

When you get random packages from random repositories, mix multiple releases of Debian, or mix Debian and derived distributions, you have a mess. There's no way anyone can support this "distribution of Frankenstein" and #debian certainly doesn't want to even try. See if you can convince ##linux to help.

The other point is that the Debian packaging should work to understand other Debian packages. If you install something with lots of other dependencies, those are normally pulled in, configuration is done and it "just works"

If you have a question, just ask! For example: "I have a problem with ___; I'm running Debian version ___. When I try to do ___ I get the following output ___. I expected it to do ___." Don't ask if you can ask, if anyone uses it, or pick one person to ask. We're all volunteers; make it easy for us to help you. If you don't get an answer try a few hours later or on debian-user@lists.debian.org. See <smart questions><errors>.

So, I've been trying to subscribe to a bug by email, specifically, this one: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882845. I seem to remember that it used to be that all I had to do was send an email to 882845-subscribe@bugs.debian.org from the email address I want to subscribe, and then I'd get a confirmation email I needed to reply to. But I've tried multiple times over two weeks from two different emails and no

Jonny: I can't recall all what you can change, but there is a config file you can tweak that has various settings. I don't believe there's a GUI that does more than enable/disable the effects completely.

Raspbian is a distribution <based on Debian> made specifically for the <Raspberry Pi>. Raspbian is not Debian and it is not supported in #debian. Please use #raspbian on irc.freenode.net for support. http://www.raspbian.org/

orion: I couldn't think of anything to suggest, that should work. For IRC support, though, particularly in slower channels, you should idle in the channel. sometimes people come by hours later and see your question. you can re-ask it every few hours / 1 or 2 times/day, depending on how much part/join traffic you see.

Hm. I suppose another possibility is that my outgoing messages are being blocked or dropped somehow, given that I'm using a mail client affected by that bug... Guess I could try sending with a different client.

In which case, it would be good if whoever administers it knows. I sent an email to owner@bugs.debian.org a day or so ago, but, given the holiday, there's no way to know whether I haven't heard back because it wasn't received or because they're not checking their email obsessively. :P

it's a single user system (me). i have a backup method in place already, it does allow hooks for special, cases but mainly it's just a text list of files so if i could just add a user crontab to that then job done.

grummund: you could also setup a crontab for the user that backups the crontab before running the normal user backup. Or consider that backuping up crontabs is the system admins job, not the users, various ways to go about this.

grummund: note there are other things a user cannot read by default, so backing up a system as a normal user will always miss somethings, crontab just maybe the one you care about, so adjust your backup to deal with it.

"Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client including information leaks, unintended JavaScript execution and sender address spoofing." - they're just figuring that out now?

Incidentally, I just got my second subscription confirmation for bug 538088. [The first email in the sequence actually requires me to reply to it to make the subscription actually happen, the second confirms that it happened.] So at least some bug subscriptions are working normally.

tt--I don't know if you remember me, but you helped me briefly somewhere around December 10th to install Debian. Your suggestion to try to enable legacy boot mode was the key that after six hours of working on installing, finally got me through to the Debian installer.

im trying to do an auto deployment cd (using simple-cdd), but once iso is built and i boot from it, it just sits there at the initial boot menu asking whether to do install, graphical install, etc and waiting for enter to be pressed

When I hit F2 repeatidly to go into the setup utility on my Acer Spin SP111-31 and then go to security, and then go down to secure boot mode and select "Yes" I want to "Erase all Secure Boot Setting" then when I press F10 to save and exit, then the screen goes black and then "acer" comes on the screen and it just freezes like that indefinitely

I assumed that if I select that "yes" I want to erase all secure boot settings that secure boot would no longer be on. Prior to making this selection, when I tried to install Debian by booting from the DVD drive, I received the message "security boot fail"

I went to the boot menu and selected disable secure boot. I no longer get the message secure boot fail when I turn the computer off and back on again to try to load from the DVD drive, but the screen still freezes on startup, only saying "acer"

OS disc is a place where you can purchase linux distributions. yes, so it's is an disc to install Debian. it appears that the boot manager only gives me options as to what device I would like to boot from

oh, I forgot, the first time I burned Debian, when I burned it, it was to a cd, so now I'm using the dvd that I bought instead, so on the boot option manager, I'm changing the order so that the first is from the DVD image. I do also have thumb drive with debian cinnamon on it.

If you have a question, just ask! For example: "I have a problem with ___; I'm running Debian version ___. When I try to do ___ I get the following output ___. I expected it to do ___." Don't ask if you can ask, if anyone uses it, or pick one person to ask. We're all volunteers; make it easy for us to help you. If you don't get an answer try a few hours later or on debian-user@lists.debian.org. See <smart questions><errors>.

oem: the only thing I see is I don't know how these boot images you have were made. If you had a thumbdrive you could destory the data on, I would suggest making one yourself. Really all you should need to do is disable secure boot and boot off the medium. Note it if the boot mediums only support legacy boot, you'll have to turn legacy boot on.

sounds like someone was having the same sort of problem with Ubuntu (was booting to the Acer logo with a flashing underscore in the top corner) and they had to enable Network Boot and the F12 Boot Menu

the acer spin SP111-31, just like the HP stream, apparently needs non-free firmware to run, and during the install process, they are both unable to detect network interfaces. There's a tutorial about installing Debian on an HP Stream on DebianWiki, which mentions the non-free firmware problem, so I'll just read the tutorial and go from there

I've been trying to subscribe to bug 882845 by email for the past two weeks, with two different email addresses and various combinations of subject line/body, and the confirmation email never arrives. I have successfully subscribed to another bug in this time, so the problem seems to be specific to that bug number.

Point releases are updates to <stable> and <oldstable>, fixing security and grave bug fixes. There are no point releases for Debian 9 "Stretch" yet. You can upgrade to the latest point release by referencing a Debian <mirror> in /etc/apt/sources.list, then "apt update && apt full-upgrade". See <8.8>. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases.

I have downloaded the iso and burnt to a usb. When I run the installer I get up to the 'detect and mount cd-rom' stage and get an error: "Error reading release file". I can manually mount the cdrom from here but then the install gets stuck on the 'package manager' stage.

Hi, what is the package name for the file manager that open when you try to open a file from the browser(attach) or other programs. Not thunar or nautilus, must be some other package name. Cause mine is messed up by backports so I want to purge and re-install. Doing purge/re-install fixed a lot of apps looking very plain, but I have this one to go.

somiaj, that did it, it is like a new user, but the view is still plain, no margins/padding, but at not showing new files isn't happing, I am thinking maybe that one thing was never an issue I just didn't see it last time.

[non-free] a component which contains software that does not comply with the <DFSG>. To add non-free packages to your packages index, ask me about <non-free sources>. To see which non-free packages are installed ask me about <non-free list>. For the non-free tracking system, see http://nonfree.alioth.debian.org/

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, ensure that the two main Debian mirror lines end with "main contrib non-free" rather than just "main", then «apt-get update». But bear in mind that you'll be installing <non-free> software. These may have onerous terms; check the licenses. See also <sources.list>.